He haerena tēnei. This page is a journey
Tūhoe our people. Te Urewera our homeland. Tūhoetana our culture. Scroll, and walk the river of our story, from Hinepūkohurangi to the first Tūhoe village, and on to tomorrow.
I te tīmatana
The mist maiden and the mountain. From their union came the first people of Te Urewera: nā tamariki o te kohu, the children of the mist. Every stop on this river flows from that beginning.
Māu hai kōrero mai. You tell me. Life in the whārua before the world came to us.
The eastern Bay of Plenty raupatu: the taking that shaped a century of resistance.
Crown columns burn the kāinga and the gardens of Te Urewera.
Confiscation reaches the great lake, and Te Whitu Tekau stands up to govern.
Self-government on paper: an autonomy promised, then unpicked.
Police ride against Rua Kēnana's community at the sacred mountain.
Te Urewera is declared a park. Beautiful to the world, confiscated to us.
The festival of being Tūhoe: kapa haka, sport, reo, and the whānau coming home.
The Crown apologises. Te Urewera becomes her own legal person, never a park again.
Hapū villages rise: living buildings, our own power, our own water, our own way.
Āpōpō
The Blueprint carries us forward: Te Mana Motuhake, hearts, hands and feet at home in the whārua.
Read the full Journey Story Series →Kei kōnei koe · you are here
History, people and whenua. Find your marae among the four whārua and stand in your whakapapa.
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Our direction and values, our hauora services, and the livelihoods building capability at home.
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Te Kura Whare, Whenua, Tanata, Awhitu: living buildings that embody who we intend to be.
Haere →Te Waha o te Hoiho